Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher

Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher

11 in. x 14 in., acrylic on cradled panel

$400 unframed (no frame necessary)

This was a piece I painted for a February art show called, "All Heart" for the Seacoast Artist Association in Exeter, NH.  What a challenge this painting was!  There were times I was unsure if I was going to able to successfully render these puckered, shiny, mylar balloons convincingly.  It required careful flexing of the "paint what you see and not what you think is there" muscle.  The balloons, being metallic, curved, and reflective, meant that the colors and shapes over the surfaces of the balloons just didn't seem to make sense for about 80% of the painting experience.  It wasn't until I started in on the lightest shades and the brightest highlights that quite suddenly, the nonsensical forms made sense... and they became shiny red mylar heart balloons.  It was really magical!

Photo reference courtesy Alesia Talkachova @_aleia_t

 

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Oranges and Cranberries

 

Oranges and Cranberries

6 in. x 6 in., acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas

$130 unframed (no frame necessary)

Another #foodpaintchallenge reference from @dennispfeil.art and it was an excellent challenge with a lot of subtle value changes and a variety of muted and saturated colors.  The lighting was also interesting; achieving the transparency of the orange slices and the glowing penumbra around the shadows took some time to puzzle out and get right.  This one didn't flow "straight off the brush," but it sure built some muscle, and I'm happy with the results.  I hope you like it, too!

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Nor'easter - SOLD

Nor'easter

6 in. x 6 in., acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas

$130 unframed ~ SOLD! (somebody liked this!)

A simple nocturne painting of a familiar winter sight up here in New England.  For those of you from away, a nor'easter is a snowstorm that backs in on top of New England, spinning counter-clockwise and bringing tons of moisture from off the coast. Nor'easters are usually responsible for dumping higher snow totals than other storms onto us here in the northeast. Roads are covered quicker than the plows can keep up, trees sag under the weight of the snow, and all you can see in the illuminated pillars of streetlights is swirling snow coming down hard and fast.  Just like this.

 

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